Improvement in garment-hanger and size-ticket holder combined



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gaat entre ISAAC 'DESKY AND THOMAS A. JENNIN GS, OE SENECA FALLS, NEWYORK.

Letters Patent No. 98,47 6, dated January 4,1870 antedated December 24,1869.

IMPROVEMENT INl G ARMENT-HANG-ER .AND SIZE-TICKETHOLDER CQMBINED.

The Schedule rfen'nd toin these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we,',IsAAc DESKY and THOMAS A. JENNINGS, of the villageof Seneca Falls, in the county of Seneca, and State of New York, havejointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Coat- Hanger andSize-Ticket Holder combined; and .we do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description, thereof, suicient to enable oneskilled -in the art to make and use the same.

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification- Figure 1 is aplan of the device, with the size-ticket indicated by dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a plan of the device, with the tape or cloth for fasteningthe same to a garment appended.

Figure 3 shows the same device in theA position in which it is securedto the inside of thecollar of a coat.

The usual provision for suspending garments, has

' been, generally, by means of a loop of tape,'or likel material, sewedon the garment, by which loop the garment is held to the pin or otherfixture, from which it is suspended. The size-ticket used in the trade,(which is also made to denote cost and price generally,) has beenheretofore sewed on the garment. 'lhese loops soon wearout and becomeuseless.; and it has been found, troublesome to e'ect change of ticketsw-hen it is necessary or desirable to do so, when they have been sewedou the garments in the ordinary manner.

1n place of the loop or other means, vhitherto used for the purpose ofhanging up or suspending garments, and of the fixed attachment f thesize-ticket as heretofore used, we construct the implement or deviceshown in the drawings, which combines in itself, a durable coat-hangerand a size-ticket holder, in which the ticket is readily placed,securely held, and from which it can be easily removed and replaced.

To enable others'skilled in the art to make and use our invention, wewill proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The form in which we usually constructV our com,- bined coat-hanger andsize-ticket holder, is represented in iig-1, of its ordinary full size.We prefer, over other modes of manufacture, to make them of vsheetbrass,of about one thirty-second of an inchthickness, struck by punch anddies, in the usual manner of like manufactures; or they may be made ofother metal or wire, or cast-metal; but We prefer sheetmetal. Norv do weconfine ourselves exclusively to the use of metal, but "weg regard it asthe best and cheapest material to use for their manufacture.

The upper-'bar A, tig. 1, is, except in its middle por tion, parallelwith the bars B and C, which are parallel with each other, havingopenings between the said bars, through which openings the ticketindicated by the red dotted lines F is passed under the bar B, and overthe bars A and O, as shown in g. 1.

The middle portion of the bar A curves upward, as shown'in Isaid lig. 1,so as to fit it torec'eive the pin or other fixture, on 'which thegarment is suspended.

We fasten our combined coat-han ger and size-ticket holder to a garment,but in'such manner as to allow it to be turned upward or` downward, bysewingiton through the holes e el e2 c, iig. 1, in the lower barY (l,or, preferably, by means cfa short piece of tape or cloth, of the widthof the space between the bars, doubled over the bar C. e

This tape or cloth, E", fig. 2, is sewed'on, as shown` by the dottedlines K, fig. 2. The lower bar G is rounded, to, facilitate turning. thedevice up and down. The ticket, when passed through the openings, as

yabove mentioned, and pressed out straight, or nearly so, is held inasecure manner by the said bars, without other fastening.

Our invention combines a cheap and durable device for suspending agarment, by means of the curved bar-A, with the arrangement for holdinga ticket by the bars A VB C, inserted inthe openings between said' bars,as set forth, in one implement, and is peculiarly adapted to the use ofdealers in ready-made clothing',I as the tickets are not liable to getloose and drop ott by the handling of the garments, as is the case whenthey are sewed on..

What we claim as our invention, and desire-to cure by Letters Patent,is. y

The combined coat-hanger and size-ticket holder, consisting of thecurved bar A, bars B and G, cons'e- A nected together, and adapted. forfastening 'to a ga` r' ment, substantiallyin the mannerand for thepurposes set forth.

, ISAAC DESKVY.

T. A. JENNINGS.

Witnesses:

BENSON OWEN, J. E, SPnNcn.'

